Director, Scientific and Operations Intelligence, Obesity

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

3d

About The Position

This role owns the non-commercial Obesity Insights & Analytics agenda across scientific domains, including R&D, Medical, and Clinical Development, and operations domains, including Clinical Operations, Supply, and related Operations functions. As the trusted Insights & Analytics partner to senior leaders across these functions, the Director connects priorities, surfaces cross-functional dependencies, frames the questions with the greatest potential to improve decisions and outcomes, and mobilizes the right data and expertise to deliver clear recommendations for Obesity and Related Conditions leadership. During the initial capability build, the Director will operate as an agile enterprise problem solver, flexing across the highest-priority functional and cross-functional needs. In parallel, the Director will build the long-term team, operating model, and recurring portfolio required to create sustained value. The Director is accountable for prioritization, problem framing, analytical strategy and delivery, executive synthesis, and decision-impact measurement, partnering with the India-based Scientific and Operations Intelligence capability and other experts to scale delivery. Commercial Insights & Analytics and Competitive Intelligence are outside the remit. Success is measured by decisions improved, risks anticipated, and value created.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree and 7 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in life sciences, medicine, pharmacy, public health, epidemiology, data science, engineering, operations research, business, or a related field.
• Ten or more years of experience in biopharma, biotechnology, healthcare, or life sciences consulting, with deep expertise in at least one relevant scientific or operations domain, meaningful experience in another, and demonstrated ability to integrate across functions.
• Demonstrated success framing ambiguous, high-stakes questions and translating complex evidence into recommendations that changed or accelerated a senior leadership decision.
• Proven ability to deliver near-term impact while building a new capability, operating model, or team across a complex global organization.
• Strong understanding of drug discovery and development, medical evidence, clinical trial design and execution, and biopharmaceutical supply operations, with fluency in relevant data, scenario modeling, visualization, and responsible applications of AI.
• Experience in obesity, cardiometabolic disease, or another complex and rapidly evolving therapeutic area is strongly preferred.
• Exceptional executive communication, judgment, and ability to influence, challenge constructively, and create alignment in a global matrix.

Responsibilities

• Build and sustain trusted relationships with senior leaders across R&D, Medical, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Supply, and related Operations functions to understand evolving priorities, connect interdependencies, and shape the Insights & Analytics agenda.
• Anchor each priority to a clear question, decision date, decision owner, and value at stake, and ensure insights translate into decisions and action.
• Serve as an agile problem-solving leader across the scientific and operations remit, rapidly deploying to the most consequential functional and cross-functional priorities rather than operating through fixed workstreams.
• Lead priority work end to end: define the decision and hypotheses; determine the analytical approach; mobilize the right data, capabilities, and experts; synthesize findings; recommend a course of action; and track impact.
• Integrate scientific and operational information into decision-ready views of options, dependencies, uncertainties, and trade-offs, including research prioritization, development choices, evidence generation, trial execution, supply capacity, and readiness.
• Build reusable decision products and analytical capabilities, including scenario models, evidence maps, risk dashboards, decision trees, and leading indicators.
• Apply advanced analytics and AI where they materially improve quality, speed, or scale.
• Build the long-term team and operating model, including intake and prioritization, stakeholder engagement, work-product standards, governance, and an effective delivery model across the India-based Scientific and Operations Intelligence capability, functional analytics teams, and subject-matter experts.
• Create a high-performing culture of intellectual honesty, constructive challenge, analytical rigor, and action, with strong standards for scientific integrity, compliance, privacy, data governance, and reproducibility.

Benefits

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Award-winning time-off plans
• Flexible work models where possible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree